SenStick: Comprehensive Sensing Platform with an Ultra Tiny All-In-One Sensor Board for IoT Research

We propose a comprehensive sensing platform called SenStick, which is composed of hardware (ultra tiny all-in-one sensor board), software (iOS, Android, and PC), and 3D case data. The platform aims to allow all the researchers to start IoT research, such as activity recognition and context estimation, easily and efficiently. The most important contribution is the hardware that we have designed. Various sensors often used for research are embedded in an ultra tiny board with the size of 50 mm (W) × 10 mm (H) × 5 mm (D) and weight around 3 g including a battery. Concretely, the following sensors are embedded on this board: acceleration, gyro, magnetic, light, UV, temperature, humidity, and pressure. In addition, this board has BLE (Bluetooth low energy) connectivity and capability of a rechargeable battery. By using 110 mAh battery, it can run more than 15 hours. The most different point from other similar boards is that our board has a large flash memory for logging all the data without a smartphone. By using SenStick, all the users can collect various data easily and focus on IoT data analytics. In this paper, we introduce SenStick platform and some case studies. Through the user study, we confirmed the usefulness of our proposed platform.

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THE ANALYSIS OF SENSORY PLATFORM FOR USE IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Informatyka Automatyka Pomiary w Gospodarce i Ochronie Środowiska ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0010.5227 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 103-106

Author(s):

Tomasz Zieliński

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Low Energy ◽

The Internet ◽

Literature Study ◽

Bluetooth Low Energy ◽

Sensor Platforms ◽

Sensing Platform ◽

Sensor Platform ◽

Hub Model ◽

The Internet Of Things

The main purpose of the work was to analyze sensory platform solutions for use on the Internet of Things. Emphasis was placed on the literature study on Sensor Platforms, Internet of Things, Bluetooth Low Energy Communication Protocol, serial digital and analog interfaces most commonly used in sensory platforms. Analysis of sensory platform solutions was carried out in terms of their functionality and efficiency. The SensorTag CC2650 sensing platform by Texas Instruments, turned out to be the best and has been used to build the hub model. The hub model was based on hardware and software implementation, which resulted in the expansion of the sensor platform with 6 additional analog inputs and a Bluetooth Low Energy data transmission profile. Testing the correctness of the software produced in the laboratory environment has made it possible to determine the correct functioning of the concentrator model.

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Public transport - Interoperable fare management system - Bluetooth low energy ticketing use cases and guidelines

10.3403/30380103u ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Transport ◽

Management System ◽

Low Energy ◽

Use Cases ◽

Bluetooth Low Energy ◽

Fare Management

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Public transport - Interoperable fare management system - Bluetooth low energy ticketing use cases and guidelines

10.3403/30380103 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Transport ◽

Management System ◽

Low Energy ◽

Use Cases ◽

Bluetooth Low Energy ◽

Fare Management

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RFID, NFC, Beacons, and the Infrastructures of Logistical Locative Media

The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190864385.013.31 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 474-486

Author(s):

Jordan Frith

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Radio Frequency Identification ◽

Near Field ◽

Low Energy ◽

Near Field Communication ◽

Rfid Tags ◽

Bluetooth Low Energy ◽

Locative Media ◽

Frequency Identification ◽

Machine Readable

The phrase the Internet of things was originally coined in a 1999 presentation about attaching radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to individual objects. These tags would make the objects machine-readable, uniquely identifiable, and, most importantly, wirelessly communicative with infrastructure. This chapter evaluates RFID as a piece of mobile communicative infrastructure, and it examines two emerging forms: near-field communication (NFC) and Bluetooth low-energy beacons. The chapter shows how NFC and Bluetooth low-energy beacons may soon move some types of RFID to smartphones, in this way evolving the use of RFID in payment and transportation and enabling new practices of post-purchasing behaviors.

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